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analysis | 18/11/2025 | How NOT to Rebuild a Navy: the case of Romania’s “light corvette” procurement
This report argues that the procurement of a Hisar class offshore patrol vessel (OPV), reclassified by Romania as a “light corvette” , represents a mistake as the ship is not adapted for the naval warfare realities in the Black Sea. Aside from fleet modernization, this procurement was motivated by the need to protect Romania’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) from hostile incursions and to fill the gap created by the cancellation of the...
analysis | 05/03/2025 | A World Without a Leader
Last week, we marked the three-year anniversary of Russia’s ongoing and brutal war against Ukraine. While Ukraine, and its brave men and women, and its one-of-a-kind president have already won their place in history, the West (as we know it) is crumbling. What was supposed to be a milestone that spurs a show of solidarity of the Western World toward the victim, unearthed and exposed in broad day light a disturbing new reality:...
analysis | 22/10/2023 | The most remarkable year in energy
The year 2022 will go down as the annus mirabilis (remarkable year) in energy history. It has brought a tsunami of events and changes which fundamentally transformed the oil and gas markets. You would never think that so much can be packed in a year, yet it did. Events that rewired the traditional oil and gas flows, which caused the highest electricity and natural gas prices ever recorded by European statistics, which have shaken...
analysis | 09/09/2023 | Plea for a responsible foreign policy of Romania towards Ukraine
Romania and Poland (the two pillars of NATO’s eastern flank) should be the most visible supporters of Ukraine at the moment. However, the two countries have embraced opposing strategies: while Poland (along with the Baltic States) has asserted itself as Eastern Europe’s strongest and most vocal supporter of Ukraine, Romania has opted for a muted public profile, hinting that it helps the victim of Russian aggression,...
analysis | 19/04/2023 | Romania’s approach to energy transition: too little, too slow
Romania is a late and unwilling implementer of energy transition. The state-owned energy companies have largely missed out on the renewable energy boom (2011-2015) and are showing interest only now, when faced with imminent disappearance from the market and when the EU legislation is forcing them to make a choice: restructure or die. The main locomotive for Romania’s energy transition is EU energy policy, specifically the Green Deal...